Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.
At the same time, I went through college, received a Ph. D. and started to teach. I wrote books.
I think it's a beautiful thing how Hip Hop is received by the world.
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven. [Lat. , Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, In terras; et, quod missum est ex aetheris oreis, Id rursum caeli relatum templa receptant. ]
And friend received with thumps upon the back.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
gossip. . . was like any other commodity in the marketplace. You received it only if you had something of value to give.
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.
I didn't accept it. I received it.
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him
A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St. Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…” “God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes.